An Inside Look at Cloud-Based Microsoft Office 365Our columnist gets the skinny on on Microsoft's 'cloudification' of software and what it could mean for your business.
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Microsoft is not taking its move into cloud computing lightly. Office 365--the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant's formal entry into the cloud market--provides web-based versions of Microsoft Office software classics like Word, Excel and PowerPoint, along with other tools, for a flat monthly fee starting at $6 per user, per month. Office 365 has been in development for several years, and the stakes for the company--and for the more than 750 million Microsoft users worldwide--are high.
We caught up with John Betz, Microsoft's director of online services, to get the skinny on what web-based computing will mean to Microsoft--and to the businesses using it.
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